92. Who, then, can dare to say that the
substance of the Holy Spirit is created, at Whose shining in our hearts
we behold the beauty of divine truth, and the distance between the
creature and the Godhead, that the work may be distinguished from its
Author? Or of what creature has God so spoken as to say:
“I will pour out of My Spirit”? Joel ii. 28. He said not Spirit, but “of My
Spirit,” for we are not able to receive the fulness of the Holy
Spirit, but we receive as much as our Master divides to us of His own
according to His will. Phil. ii. 6. For as the
Son of God thought it not robbery that He should be equal to God, but
emptied Himself, that we might be able to receive Him in our minds; but
He emptied Himself not that He was void of His own fulness, but in
order that He, Whose fulness I could not endure, might infuse Himself
into me according to the measure of my capacity, in like manner also
the Father says that He pours out of the Spirit upon all flesh; for He
did not pour Him forth wholly, but that which He poured forth abounded
for all.